Plane crash in Afganistan captured on dash cam. Insane footage.

Yesterday there was a plane crash at Bagram Airforce Base in Afganistan. It was captured on dashcam. It blows away the footage from the Russian crash
earlier this year also on dashcam. No one survived this crash as I am sure you will be able to tell. The Taliban claimed they shot they plane down
(heard the claim of responsibility on NPR this morning) which as you can see is false propaganda. Feel very sorry for the people onboard. They had
maybe 5 seconds warning.
Am I the only person who does not roll around with a dashcam? The guy stays very calm.. Much calmer than I would have. One little f-bomb.
I am on my phone if anyone can imbed the video.

A Boeing 747 cargo plane crashed just after takeoff from Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan yesterday. There were eight crew members on board, and
none of them survived. The entire crash was captured on the dash cam of an approaching vehicle. This is terrifying. 9

Originally posted by imagineering
That looks more like a major mechanical failure. Stall descension.

Think your right. Clearly taking off when it stalls for some reason. It looks like it jerks left or right depending on viewpoint the violently back
the other way and straight down. I do feel very sorry for the people on board. The article says there was only 8 people which is fairly amazing as it
appears to be a pretty big aircraft.

I suppose one way to look at it is it was very fortunate that more people were not killed. Bagram is a huge airbase and a lot of personal stationed
there.

Originally posted by imagineering
That looks more like a major mechanical failure. Stall descension.

Very sad. 8 crew people dead. From what I heard they lost control due to a large load shift in the cargo area. (747 modified as a cargo plane.)

When I was flying for the Navy, we listened to many a cockpit recorder in an effort to glean lessons learned from such events. It is a bit eerie when
you know you are hearing someone's last words I do recall one copilot's last words were to the pilot :"I told you so."

Thanks for posting. To me it looked like the aircraft was doing a max angle defensive take-off (gain altitude as quickly as possible to stop bad guys
with small arms from shooting you) when either an engine failed, cargo broke lose and shifted, or they just stalled the aircraft which was loaded and
heavy with fuel and cargo. Stalling the aircraft should not have been an option for anyone awake in the cockpit. Warnings, buzzers and stick shakers
would have been going off before the stall. My money is on the power loss theory or cargo shift.

Saw an OV-10 take-off after rearming and refueling once trying to do a max performance t/o out of Quan Loi only to have a power loss in his right
engine. He was about 4 wing spans above the dirt when the engine shelled. The aircraft flipped upside down and flat spun into the dirt. Ejection seats
do not work well upside down close to the ground. The bird flipped so fast the pilot had no chance of survival.

Aviation is actually pretty darn safe as long as you plan for the worse case scenario. Max angle/ max performance works as long as everything on the
bird does it's part. One failure in the link of performance can end in severe consequences for all involved.

Originally posted by 727Sky
Thanks for posting. To me it looked like the aircraft was doing a max angle defensive take-off (gain altitude as quickly as possible to stop bad guys
with small arms from shooting you) when either an engine failed, cargo broke lose and shifted, or they just stalled the aircraft which was loaded and
heavy with fuel and cargo. Stalling the aircraft should not have been an option for anyone awake in the cockpit. Warnings, buzzers and stick shakers
would have been going off before the stall. My money is on the power loss theory or cargo shift.

Saw an OV-10 take-off after rearming and refueling once trying to do a max performance t/o out of Quan Loi only to have a power loss in his right
engine. He was about 4 wing spans above the dirt when the engine shelled. The aircraft flipped upside down and flat spun into the dirt. Ejection seats
do not work well upside down close to the ground. The bird flipped so fast the pilot had no chance of survival.

Aviation is actually pretty darn safe as long as you plan for the worse case scenario. Max angle/ max performance works as long as everything on the
bird does it's part. One failure in the link of performance can end in severe consequences for all involved.

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The above all very true. We had a saying,"NATOPS is written in blood." Thanks for your service, BTW.

We probably could not feel the terror for them or ourselves unless we were there to witness it in person.
Somebody kin to me told me they saw an area in their state devastated by a tornado. Later he got to
pass by the area in person. He said the tv could not do it justice. Everything was just leveled he said or
something similar. If we knew them or could see their faces it would be even more hurtful. Of course I
don't think a human being was designed to feel the same for all losses..perhaps only for a few of the
persons closest to them in some way..otherwise it would be too much to bare. It's doubtful anyone
could survive that much grief for long.

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